I thought he came out the same way/place the MIB's body did when Jacob sent him through. He didn't die and turn into the smoke monster in the process, but he did seem to come out the exit of the light tunnel just as the MIB had. I wasn't confused by it.
I am bummed that we didn't get to see NIKKI and PAOLO in that church. Seriously though, why no Lapidas there, or Miles? They were pretty relevant. It also asks the question as to why Faraday, Charlotte, and miles did not have their own awakenings in the purgatory. Did we even see Lapidas in the sideways?
daniel and charlotte met backstage when Charlie was waking up, and they both had their moment. miles saw Sawyer, had a moment, and said "Hey"
Weak Sauce....I watched/followed this show for scifi/mystery...I did not follow this show for 6years for a freaking drama....I wanted answers...instead I got a whole bunch of emotional drama crap.
its a bit hard to believe that its over, i mean its gone man what a ride the show has been i thought the ending was great i guess my only thing i wish was explained was who had built the temples/statues and the hieroglyphs, but thats ok it was more to me about the characters than anything else. I really wished Mr. Eko was there at the end though
Some how Daniel had his moment with out Charlotte way before the concert.. and I think it was more of a partial moment.. She still didn't know what was going on that was just mutual attraction I believe. Everyone that has had the FULL moment is over come with emotion... I don't think miles had the moment.. If he did it was partial. Everyone in the church I guess was ready to move on to the after life not the "Purgatory" that they were in..
great episode. great season. great series. completely satisfied with an open interpretation to what the Island and the alternate timeline were. it is very interesting to see everyone's thoughts and theories...
I found that scene kind of interesting.... they stopped it right there where Jack is in the air and then went to commercial. They came back and Jack was at different angle.... blooper.
I went back and watched the episode again. Absolutely beautiful, definitely moving. I really loved how they explained the flash sideways. I don't think I would have enjoyed it more in any other way. Can't say enough about how powerful the last episode was. I need to find my constant. I'm also fine with not all questions being answered, save one. Who the hell was Wallace?
LOST Finale: A I can't figure out a possible prominent plot hole. Didn't the Ajira plane crash land in the jungle, and didn't we see multiple long shots of that plane being surrounded by dense forest this episode? How the hell did they suddenly get a long stretch of flat runway to lift off? What I took to be the ending: The message of LOST is that it's not what you do or how you do it that matters, it's who you do it with, the people, who matter. It's not the events or the mythology of the Island that they were on that mattered, it was the experience and memory of all the other characters, the journey with all these other souls, that matter. Jack was unhappy as a man of reason who did not have close, honest relationships with other people, but after "converting" he found his true calling that satisfied him. It's a very profound and deep message. I can understand why a lot of posters on a poker forum may not get its meaning, but it resonated with me and I cried during Jack/Christian convo at the end (and only during that scene).
I have to agree. Anyone want to take a crack at this? A lot of people (including me) thought the flash sideways had something to do with the bomb exploding, but that obviously was not the case. Maybe the bomb going off was just part of the singular history of the island. Thus, there was no rewriting of history, because the bomb going off was always the "incident" that caused the hatch to be built and the button to be pushed. Were there any indications that history was rewritten because of the bomb? They saw the picture of themselves in the 1970s Dharma photo, but did anyone verify that they used to not be in the photo? Perhaps if they wandered into the Others camp on the day of the crash they would have seen themselves in that picture. My only theory is that the bomb just caused another time jump, sending them back to the present day. I'm not sure if it had any other affect other than causing the hatch to be built (which just so happens to be what caused their plane to crash). The only other thing that kind of had me second guessing this was the second group of Others at the temple. The only rational explanation is that they were always there on the island. However, the way they appeared suddenly after the bomb explodes made me think they were part of a rewritten history. I mean, could the survivors have really not come across the temple in the original timeline? The island did not seem THAT big.
To correct myself, I guess this was supposed to be the temple that Ben always talked about, so it can be assumed that the temple was always there. This is where the "uncivilized" Others lived I suppose. So yeah, I think the whole point of season 5 was just an excuse to show more about the history of the island. Which I am totally cool with.
Back in Season 3, when Sawyer and Kate were on the 2nd Island, the others made them work by digging up rocks. They were building a runway. Juliet revealed that in the Season 3 Finale. That's where the Ajira flight landed and took off from. EDIT: Apparently, according to an Official LOST Podcast, Jacob ordered that the runway be built. Maybe he was expecting Ajira 316.
Whatever happened, happened. They always went back to the 70s and they always blew up Jughead. There was always supposed to be a question as to whether the bomb worked or not and if the flash sideways was a result of that. It looked like that at first because on one hand, we saw our Losties on the plane, passing over a sunken Island. But on the other hand, we also saw our Losties still on the Island in 2007 and there were some things in the sideways that didn't line up (such as Jack having a son). I agree. Although it went unmentioned, I still attribute the pregnancy problems on the Island to the hydrogen bomb being debtonated and/or the release of a significant amount of electromagnetic energy.
Yeah the writers explained the time jump.. and that was the reason behind the bomb other than the fact that they had a parallel world with the plane not crashing. A lot of you who didn't watch that special that came on before the finale.. it's really informational on what they were trying to do. It's called "The Final Journey". It's about an hour and 15 mins long.... helped me understand a few things.
I think most people were attributing the "things not lining up" to a lack of influence by Jacob causing there past lives to go differently. Still, I kind of have to agree with the guy who asks what the point of season 5 was. The narrative of the season just simply led the viewers to believe the bomb was going to bring about some sort of change. I guess it was just misdirection, but that's quite a few episodes to spend misdirecting the viewer.
But like I said, you were always supposed to question whether the bomb worked or not. You weren't supposed to blindly assume it did. I sure didn't. The time skips gave us some answers. How and Why Ben became who he was. How Richard became aware of Locke in the first place. The reason for the button in the hatch. The back story on Eloise Hawking. It also gave us the Juliet/Sawyer relationship which was great. It also gave us Jack's shift from being a man of science to being a man of faith which is key to the plot. Him kind of taking Locke's torch. All that in addition to seeing the Dharma Initiative in action and probably more stuff that I'm forgetting.
I think: The events on the island were real, the flash sideways were Jack's near-death experience, as he died. It is a proposal for how human beings can accept their mortality by understanding that they are the sole perceivers of their reality. That the loves and experiences they have are timeless because time ends when they no longer perceive. When Jack closed his eyes for good, his reality, his life and Lost, cease to exist. It appears that Lapidus does fly the Ajira flight to rescue the survivors but anything after Jacks death doesn't matter anyway since the whole series was about his reality. The Island's power was just the structure of the story line and was ultimately not important in light of the larger issue of our acceptance of our own mortality.
